Chapter 12: The Fury of the Devil in Dalek form
Nightshade rubbed her hands together as the Moonray opened a vortex to the Stirling UNIT base. It could have gone much worse but it didn't. The being that had been transported to their dimension had pratical begged her to listen to what he had to say. Being one of honour and of the code Nigtshade had informed him that she will listen to him once she had dealt with the upcoming Dalek Invasion. He had wanted to help, but Nightshade didn't trust him. No she would have to wait and see what he had to say before making a decision along with Kate.
The silver and blue Moonray was just beyond the treeline and ready to beam her back to London. London was always attacked by the Daleks during their failed invasions of the earth. It was the most logical place for them to attack or Dalek X would decide to attack somewhere that the Daleks had not attacked making him a dangerous wildcard. A dangerous wildcard that not even the Doctor could predict and there was also Dalek Caan. Caan having faced the Doctor a few times knew how best to deal with him and he also knew what was the best way to deal with Sec. Caan had been plotting for centuries how best to take the leadership of the Cult of Skaro from Sec to him, but every time he was prevented from doing anything by Dalek Sec and Dalek Thay. Dalek Jast just stayed out of the how political buisness since it was not his place to worry about it.
The sooner Dalek X was dealt with the sooner she could see what the Mech wanted to talk about and get to Asia to help Edward track down Leatherback. That was if there no other problems that would have to be taken care of first.
"HALT!" a Dalek drone shouted from behind her. Cursing her luck, Nightshade turned around with her hands in the air to show that she had no weapons on her to face the bronze plated Dalek that rolled towards her. It's blue optic was locked solely on her and was keeping it's gun aimed at her. "YOU WILL IDENTIFY YOURSELF OR BE EXTERMINATED!" it shouted thundering to a stop before her.
Nightshade snorted. Daleks were so easy to read. "You will exterminate me even if I tell you who I am!" she replied. She kept her wits about her while dealing with the Dalek. Eyes narrowed she kept her hands above her head awaiting the right moment to strike at the Dalek drone.
"YOU WILL IDENTIFY YOURSELF!" the Dalek repeated. It shouted louder as if shouting was going to make a difference but all it did was shake it's chasing and force Nightshade to snort in boredom. How many times had UNIT heard that since the first time that they had crossed paths with the Daleks.
"How about you turn around and go back to Dalek X and tell him that it's a bad idea to invade the earth! That sounds like a plan!" Nightshade said. She remained still as the Dalek just stared at her blankly as if it was actually considering what she had said. "Well then if we have agreed why don't we just go our separate ways?" she spoke as she prepared to turn around.
"NEGATIVE! DALEKS DO NOT RETREAT NOR DO WE TAKE ADVICE FROM INFERIOR BEINGS!" the Dalek groaned back at her. "YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!" it screeched. It fired it's death ray at her but Nightshade ducked out of the way in time that it destroyed a tree.
Nigtshade looked from the destroyed tree back to the Dalek. The Dalek that was getting ready to fire again. "Okay! I guess we're doing this the hard way then?" she asked herself more than the Dalek. The Dalek fired at her again, but Nightshade moved quickly again. This time a part of the grassy ground exploded as the ray beam smashed into the ground. "I have a question. Will it help if I stay still?" she asked the Dalek that just shouted "EXTERMINATE!" at her.
The Dalek fired at her again and this time Nightshade remained in the same spot like she said. But she had changed form. Dropping to the ground on all four legs and with the cracking on bones and scrapping of metal Nightshade changed form. Bones rearranged themselves into the right form as the one eyed tiger glared back back the Dalek. It's own weapon systems humming as they powered up.
The Dalek fired again but the tiger was to quick for it. Rolling to the side the tiger let out a roaring hiss as it fired two missiles at the Dalek. One missile missed it's mark but the other missile did not. It smacked right into the Dalek and with a loud bang the Dalek screamed and exploded in a loud bang.
"SEEK! LOCATE AND EXTERMINATE!"
More Daleks!
Glancing at the smoking wreck of the Dalek Nightshade shifted form from tiger to her jet form. With a loud thundering roar the jet took to the air above Stirling. It was not long before a Dalek ship was chasing her.
The much smaller jet weaved in and out of hills as it tried to evade the much larger Dalek ship that had begun firing upon the smaller aircraft. A barrel roll was followed by more air manoeuvres as the jet lead the Dalek ship towards open ocean. The North Sea was rough far below the alien craft as it powered through the sky. It's glowing blue afterburners left a blue trail brightl enough for the Daleks to follow but not bright enough for them to see the jet.
Changing direction quickly Nightshade shot higher into the sky and hid in the dark storm clouds that were creeping towards Scotland. It was the perfect place to hide and wait for the right moment to strike.
The Dalek ship was right below her. It had stopped firing as it's scanners tried to locate her after giving them the slip. Keeping above the ship, Nigtshade planed the next stage of her attack. If she brought down this ship that would be one less ship that was invading, but if she did bring it down it would inform Dalek X where there was something that could bring one of his ships down. No she needed to be careful. She couldn't have it exploding and altering all the Dalek fleet what just happened. But she could not allow the ship to move on towards Norway and then to Russia killing all that it past.
Circling around the massive ship, Nigtshade searched for a weak point. Maybe a weapon that was dangerous and needed to be taken out before anything else or an engine. But she couldn't find any. The Daleks had improved their shipbuilding skills to the point that they were just as dangerous as the Time Lord's war TARDIS'S that they used during the Time War.
Shutting down her afterburners the shapeshifter glided around the ship one more time formulating a plan. Focusing solely on the ship below her, she did not notice the second one break through the Dalek clouds. The new Dalek ship was twice as big as the ship that had followed herb from Stirling. It's plating was black unlike the golden and bronze plating of the other ships in the fleet. Massive spikes spiked out of the ships plating given it a look that would make it more comfortable in the Underworld rather than is sky above the North Sea.
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Inside the second Dalek ship in the control room was a black, red and golden cased Dalek. The Daleks casing was charred from an explosion that had destroyed the control room of the Dalek City back in Skaro. The plating had massive scars that had been polished as best as possible by the human slaves were massive as no work had been able to be done. Dalek X in a full rage attack had killed nearly all the human slaves leaving his chasing covered in white scratches that were not going to get repaired until he got a new fleet of human slaves. And he knew just where to find them.
"ALERT! DALEK X WE HAVE LOCATED THE SHAPESHIFTER KNOWN AS NIGHTSHADE!" a Dalek drone shouted from its position at the ships control console. The red Dalek had swung it's domed head around to face Dalek X. Dalek X hovered in the middle of the control room of his large ship so that all Daleks at their posts could see him and report directly to him. Behind him was Dalek Caan. Dalek Caan was in a much worser state than he was. His casing was more or less gone. The small tentacled creature wriggled about in pain as Dalek X refused to let him see a Scientist Dalek.
Dalek X looked down at the red drone Dalek. His cracked red optic bore down on the lesser of the Dalek race. "BRING HER TOO ME! BRING NIGHTSHADE TO ME!" Dalek X ordered. Instantly Daleks of all ranks went about to bring Nigtshade in. Their hatred for the Doctor transfered over to Nightshade for her being an associate of the most feared and hated Time Lord. "PUT THE EXTERMINATER INTO LOCK DOWN! WE CANNOT ALLOW NIGTSHADE TO ESCAPE AND GET HELP!" he shouted at the Daleks still in the control room.
Dalek X turned his attention round to Dalek Caan. The only member of the Cult of Skaro who was still a pure Dalek looked back at him with fear in his eye. "DALEK SCIENTIST TAKE DALEK CAAN TO THE LAB! I THINK IT IS TIME FOR DALEK SEC AND NIGHTSHADE TO FEAR MY GENUIS!"
A Dalek Scientist rolled up behind Dalek Caan. "I OBEY!" he screeched before wheeling Dalek Caan down to the labs.
"THE DOCTOR AND DALEK SEC CANNOT STOP US! I AM TOO POWERFUL FOR A MERE TIME LORD AND A RENEGADE DALEK TO STOP!" Dalek X gloated to himself. He looked out at the Daleks that were watching him. "DALEKS ARE THE MASTERS OF ALL!" he chanted. All the other Daleks joined in. They felt a great amount of pride in shouting that they were the best in the universe. They had destroyed thousands of races and it was them that survived the savage Time War. The Time Lord's and Dragonoids were weak. They were all gone but for a few for both races. They had enough Daleks to make two empires and that was what was happening.
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Nightshade felt sudden pain as somethig smashed right through the metal of her jet form. She tried to get away but the grip of whatever was holding her was too strong and she found herself being pulled towards the black Dalek ship. The smaller bronze Dalek ship had leveled up with the much larger ship and was preventing her from escaping.
The hold of the ship opened up and Nightshade was dropped down beside a squadron of Dalek fighters. Drones from different eras watched her as if she had the humans black death. Their weapons trained onto her as she changed back to human form. Parts of the jet clanked against each other as metal parts became metal bones and the jets power source returned to its usual place within het ribcage.
"SURRENDER YOUR WEAPONS, NIGTSHADE!" a Dalek Supreme shouted from where it hovered above all the other Daleks and Nightshade. It's blue optic never strayed far from Nightshade who dropped her weapons to the ground in a loud bang as the two remaining human slaves took her shoulders. "YOU WILL FOLLOW EVERY INSTRUCTION GIVING TO YOU BY YOUR NEW DALEK MASTERS!" it screeched as the shapeshifter allowed the two slaves to take her to see Dalek X. "TAKE HER TO SEE DALEK X!" he shouted.
Nightshade was surrounded by Daleks. Dalek X's fleet may not have been as big as the Emperor's fleet that was also made of the Dalek Parliament, but Dalek X's fleet was twice as bad. These Daleks were insane. They were Daleks that came from the Dalek Asylum or they had been plucked out of Time Stream to form a paradox.
Daleks watched her every move. They kept their weapons trained on her and she could feel their organic eyes narrowing within their travel units as she walked deeper into the belly of the beast. "Does anyone want to tell me what's going on? Or are we going to keep walking in this silence?" she asked no one in particular.
One of the Human slaves whacked her on the back of her head. "Silence!" he snarled as Nightshade glanced her teeth. She could not lose her temper. She needed to allow the Doctor and Dalek Sec time to find the Star Bane.
"All you need to do is say stay quite!" she hissed back to get another whack in the head. "Okay I get the picture!" she snarled turning back to walking with the Daleks leading her towards Dalek X.
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Dalek X stared at Nightshade as she was shoved in front of him. The two remaining human slaves took a step back and away from him. "YOU ARE BROUGHT BEFORE ME AS A TRAITOR OF THE DALEK EMPRIE!" he shouted at her. His cracked red optic never left her as two of his Personal guards hovered behind.
"I am not a part of your empire, X!" she snarled. A human slave whacked her on the head with a loud clank. "Would you stop doing that?" she asked the slave who only whacked her again.
"YOU ARE A PART OF THE NEW DALEK EMPIRE. A EMPIRE THAT WILL SEE THE DALEK RACE GROWING ON EARTH!" Dalek X gloated from where he hovered above the shapeshifter. "YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED BEFORE THE DOCTOR AND ANYONE WHO STANDS AGAINST US WILL BE EXTERMINATED IN FRONT OF THE CITIZENS OF EARTH!" he shouted at her.
Nightshade growled as Daleks surrounded her on all side. She needed a way out of the ship. She needed to be helping UNITS airforce in bringing the Dalek fleet down. She couldn't belive that she was hoping the Emperor was going to help them. Sec would have informed him what was happening with Dalek X and was no doubt preparing his fleet to take out the renegade Dalek.
"Dalek X you do know that the humans will just let you walk all over them! They will stand up against you and it may not be today or next month but they will stop you. They will avenge all that you killed and you want to know something Dalek X?" she snarled at Dalek X.
Dalek X glared at Nightshade. "EXPLAIN BEFORE I EXTERMINATE YOU FOR ANNOYING ME!" he snapped at her. His gun twicthed as he fought the urge to fire at her.
"The Doctor will stop you! He's done it before! And he can do it again!" she snapped. She smirked when Dalek X's optic narrowed at her.
"EXTERMINATE!" he shouted. The brilliant blue light shot out of his gun and towards Nightshade. The shapeshifter had no where to go. Two human slaves were holding her still and there was hundreds of Daleks waiting to shoot should she somehow escape.
Nightshade remained still for as long as possible as the blue ray got closer to her. A plan was already formed in her mind as she looked at the human slave. He was taller than her in her human form but not as strong. She had unhuman strength and stamina which made her a terrifying force on the battlefield. He was also missing an eye after the Dalek Scientist had removed the right eye. "I'm just got to say this!" she hissed at the human who looked at her with that one eye. "Am not sorry about this!" she whispered to him.
The human looked confused and then terrified as Nightshade twisted her arm around. The bones in her arms snapped and popped as they took on a new angle. A new angle that allowed her break out of his hold and then grab his arm in a clawed paw. Nightshade moved her feet as if she were in a dance leading her partner to be in front of her. The man screamed in pain as all his organs fried and bubbled. He became lose in Nightshade's hold as she used his body as a shield.
"EXTERMINATE HER! DO NOT ALLOW HER TO ESCAPE!" Dalek X shouted as he fired at her again.
Nightshade blocked the shot with the human body before dropping it onto the ground. Turning on her heels she focused on the last human slave. They slave that was holding all of her gear. The slave was terrified was an understatement. His remaining eye was wide in fear as he stared into her red eyes. With a tremor coursing through his body he handed his gear over to her before a black bladed sword was plunged into his chest. Mouthing a "thank you" he dropped to the ground in a lifeless bundle.
Turning as quickly as possible and using her sword as a shield Nightshade ran out of the control room of the Dalek ship.
Dalek X watched her run. She would not get far. His ship was growling with Daleks and his new weapon. Spinning his domed head around to the three Dalek Scientists who hovered close by. "IS IT COMPLETE?" he asked. His red optic narrowed at the Scientists.
A Dalek in green casing hovered up to him. "AFFIRMATIVE! HIS BRAIN HAS BEEN WIELDED INTO THE NEW BODY AND IS AWAITING FOR ITS MASTER TO SHOW IT'S SELF!" he explained to Dalek X.
"EXCELLENT! DALEK CAAN WILL HELP US IN TAKING DOWN NIGHTSHADE, THE DOCTOR AND DALEK SEC! THE CULT OF SKARO WILL BORN IN THE FLAMES OF A DYING EARTH!" he gloated.
Dalek X followed the three Dalek Scientists to the lab not knowing that a pair of yellow eyes were watching him from the shadows.
"Things keep looking up for me!" Seth smirked. Happy that things were proceeding just as he planned. All he needed to get was the Book of the Dead and he would have all of his powers back. Powers that will spread chaos all over the universe. But first he needed to get to the lab before going after Nightshade. Nigtshade could wait but he needed to get something that was totally loyal to him and him alone.